Barrington Hills Opinion
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Fa-la-la-la ferret this Christmas?Nov 11, 2010 10:00 pm - When out shopping for the upcoming holidays, it might be a good idea to consider bringing something fuzzy home this year. There are plenty of animals out there in rescue...
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Saturday Soapbox: Neighbors helping neghborsNov 11, 2010 10:00 pm - Neighbors helping neighbors: Rarely do you see the level of community spirit we've seen lately exhibited by Elgin's downtown merchants. When Pat Keeney was hospital...
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Requiring pledge is un-AmericanNov 11, 2010 10:00 pm - I have been following with interest in the Daily Herald the controversy swirling around the public recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, stemming from an incident at a...
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Political litter lingers too longNov 11, 2010 10:00 pm - Apparently the Republican disdain for federal regulations also applies to state and local laws and ordinances. There are laws against having signs on public byways. Whil...
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Put focus on people, not partyNov 11, 2010 10:00 pm - American politics reached an astonishing low just before the election, when we heard one of the leaders of the opposition party, Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, ...
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Thanks for help with food driveNov 11, 2010 10:00 pm - A big thank you to all the volunteers and all the citizens of Wauconda and Island Lake who so generously donated to our Make A Difference Day Food Drive at the Peace & J...
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ALS registry is there for vetsNov 11, 2010 10:00 pm - Combat Operations are over in Iraq, declared President Obama earlier this year. So the Iraq war has ended. Our troops have returned home. But what the American public do...
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Be careful about moving country backwardNov 11, 2010 10:00 pm - We're taking our country back! To Where? To When? Should we return to when the top income tax rate was 91 percent when we had the greatest economic expansion in history...
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State didn't get the election's messageNov 09, 2010 10:00 pm - Aside from Planet California and Parallel Universe Illinois, most in the country got it right in the Nov. 2 election. Repudiation of liberal, spend, tax and borrow polic...
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Openness needed on closing of Zion plantsNov 09, 2010 10:00 pm - Since 1998, Exelon's public statements regarding closure of the Zion nuclear plant have been opaque and confusing. Rather than explain what part “economics” played in sh...